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Hey, David Howe, that takes us to $300. And David Paulowich, did you say
put you down for $50? Before I posted the original question, I talked it
over a bit with someone, and said I want to see if I get 7 people to
respond. Hang on a sec while I go count... well, there's 6, if you count
me, and that kinda seems like cheating. So I haven't gotten near a
double-digits response - yet. 

What are the goals for something like this little poll? Well, we know
there are a few people who will buy a bunch of new pieces if they're
decent. And they may well be the core of a variant piece business startup,
but by themselves, they [ha, we, since I'm certainly someone who'd put up
$100] we cannot get Staunton to make us pieces. I'd like to know just how
many of us there are - but that's not going to happen, we don't write.
Pity. There is power in numbers.

What I was curious about is the number of people who will spend $10-$15 on
pieces, and not much more. If there's 1,000 - 2,000 of them, we may
succeed. But we have to make the customers and the manufacturer visible to
each other. How to do that? They don't write. Pity. It will take a lot of
advertising...

And finally, even if we don't get 7 respondents to this topic, we did get
an offer to make pieces that's worth looking into. And if Matt quits his
day job and goes into piece production, we may have gotten something good
enough to bring to our friends, to give to our friends, and to get our
friends to buy a couple pieces. I could probably live with that. Joe